LONDON, (Reuters) – British actor Hugh Grant has accepted a “substantial sum” after settling his phone-hacking damages action against the publishers of the now defunct News of the World, his lawyer said yesterday.
The actor, a strident critic of Britain’s tabloid newspaper culture, will donate the money to ‘Hacked Off’, a pressure group that helped bring about a public inquiry into press practices.
“Hugh Grant has today settled his claims for damages and other legal remedies arising out of the unlawful activities of News of the World journalists and others over a number of years,” the actor’s lawyer said in a statement.
Grant, who gave evidence to the Leveson inquiry into British press conduct in November 2011, was one of several
